84.5% of all 2013 offers going out of State?

[ArtilleryBuck]

According to the 2013 official offers thread, only 11 of the 71 offers have been extended to Ohio kids? With the perception of High School football talent in the State of Ohio, that surprises me a little. Is that mainly because it's so early in the process?

 

[OhioState001]

It's early and Urban knows he can get basically any Ohio player he wants but the out of state players will take some work so it's normal to offer a lot of out of state guys early

 

[Buckeye86]

According to the 2013 official offers thread, only 11 of the 71 offers have been extended to Ohio kids? With the perception of High School football talent in the State of Ohio, that surprises me a little. Is that mainly because it's so early in the process?

Three top 10 (5?) Ohio kids are already in the class, so you can't have a much better start than that.

Additionally, I think it is standard operating procedure to gauge interest with early offers to national kids before returning focus to the home state during camp season to fill out the class.

Other midwest schools will carpet bomb Ohio with offers to kids lacking an early one from the Buckeyes, but that is just part of the process.

 

[jwinslow]

Out of state kids don't commit on the spot.

Out of state kids rarely consider you without an offer.

Out of state kids are easy to back away from if you fill up at their spot or cool on them for another reason.

 

[ArtilleryBuck]

All responses make sense. It was just surprising to browse through the offers, and see such a vast majority going out of State. Was wondering if that was a big change from Tressel's recruiting style/philosophy, or if I just hadn't noticed the same trend in the past.

 

[jwinslow]

Tressel was more selective, did not give out offers as introductions, but he was still looser with out of state offers than ohio ones.

 

[Buckeye86]

All responses make sense. It was just surprising to browse through the offers, and see such a vast majority going out of State. Was wondering if that was a big change from Tressel's recruiting style/philosophy, or if I just hadn't noticed the same trend in the past.

The volume of offers is significantly more, particularly early out-of-state ones, which is what you noticed already.

At the end of the day (recruiting class), I think there will only be a slight (to moderate, depending on the year) increase from the Tressel era in the number of out-of-state kids in each class.

The good news is that those out-of-state kids will generally be the best of the best and will take each class to a level that Tressel rarely attained.

Tressel showed that Ohio State could sell itself on the recruiting trail into enough talent to dominate the Big Ten for a decade. Add a guy like Meyer into the mix, with his more aggressive style, and it's hard to see the talent not getting better- which is why Bielema and Dantonio are crying themselves to sleep at night.

The only downside could be a lack of understanding of Ohio State tradition from the national kids (think the Cooper years), but given Meyer's roots in Ohio and that fact that Ohio kids will always form the basis of Buckeye classes, even that isn't much of a worry... in my opinion.

 

[BuckeyeSoldier]

Its already been said but to put it another way.
Myer has given out 71 offers so far, if it was a 50/50 breakdown (35 or 36 offers to ohio kids) we would already have a full class of over 20 kids from ohio and we would be very disapointed in the overall quality of that class